Questions in Healthcare Specifically Related to the Discipline of Pharmacy: A Descriptive Analysis of Queries to Drug Information Centres in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: Queries from healthcare professionals to drug information centres may represent drug-related aspects of importance in healthcare. In this study, queries and replies from all drug information centres in Sweden, published on svelic.se (January 2023 to May 2024) and specifically related to the discipline of pharmacy, were explored. Pharmaceutical queries were defined in an iterative process starting with seven definitions of 'pharmacy' and independent assessments by two assessors. Three categories emerged: galenic queries, lookup queries and pharmacy practice queries. Out of 767 studied queries, 60 (8%) were categorised as pharmaceutical (kappa: 0.84), distributed across galenic (n = 46), lookup (n = 12) and pharmacy practice queries (n = 2). Galenic queries primarily concerned crushing or sp

SUBMITTER: Asker F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12625799 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature